Short film about Beirut
The short film about Beirut, contrast to the other shorts, which feel like pop promos, was in three parts:
(1) Girl and boy flirt in front of soft-drinks machine. - A dozen mannequins looking down on them from the escalator.
(2) Taxi-driver picks up a bumbling Englishman, has to stop off for a cake. It is someone’s birthday. The cake is in the shape of an (American) Pie. In the end the taxi-driver offers the Englishman the cake.
(3) A gang of youths enters a local store to buy some beer. They start haranguing the boy who is working there. All the while his face remains hidden. There is tension in the air. Just for a second you think there is going to be a riot, but then it all fizzles out with barbed humour… the intervention of the shopkeeper. Finally we get to see what it was that was getting them so worked up: the boy’s face – with nasty burns all over it.
(1) Girl and boy flirt in front of soft-drinks machine. - A dozen mannequins looking down on them from the escalator.
(2) Taxi-driver picks up a bumbling Englishman, has to stop off for a cake. It is someone’s birthday. The cake is in the shape of an (American) Pie. In the end the taxi-driver offers the Englishman the cake.
(3) A gang of youths enters a local store to buy some beer. They start haranguing the boy who is working there. All the while his face remains hidden. There is tension in the air. Just for a second you think there is going to be a riot, but then it all fizzles out with barbed humour… the intervention of the shopkeeper. Finally we get to see what it was that was getting them so worked up: the boy’s face – with nasty burns all over it.
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